Presentation given to the Business and Professional Women, club Lake Geneva in may 2013

1. ENERGY IN SWITZERLAND AFTER
FUKUSHIMA
BPW May 7th
Edith Page

3. Menu of the day
 What is energy?
 Context for changes
 Worlwide energy market
 The Fukushima tsunami
 Switzerland position
 Potential consequences and steps ahead
 What can we do?

4. WHAT IS ENERGY?

5. Energy is everywhere and needed everywhere
Energies are utilities we need
and used to consume daily
without question.

6. CONTEXT FOR CHANGES

7. Population growth: 7 to 9 billions
 Unequal access to energy
1/3 of today’s world
population have no
access to electricity
(1.5 billion people)

8. Growth of energy needs
Source: International energy outlook 2011 from http://www.eia.gov/
Electricity
sector to grow
most: 30% of
energy needs
in 2030

9. The climate change and Greenhouse gases
Source: NASA

10. Our ecological footprint
 2,6 hag for an average inhabitant
 One earth isn’t enough
 We lived on The Earth credit from
August 22nd till Dec 31st, 2012!

11. Context for changes
 Progressive evolution of our society towards new
values and meaningful lives
 The green consciousness enlarged since
2005/2006
 Emergence of Corporate social responsibility
 Rio+20: leadership transfer from politics to
corporations and society
« Johannesburg est un
test pour tous les
dirigeants qui disent se
préoccuper du bien-être
de notre planète et de
sa population. »
Kofi Annan,
Comité préparatoire du
Sommet mondial pour
le développement
durable, 17 juillet 2002
Photo extraite de edu-
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«L’engagement
volontaire n’a pas
fonctionné. La crise
confirme la nécessité
de mettre de l’éthique
dans les affaires…»
Michel Doucin,
ambassadeur RSE à
la Commission
européenne.
Repris de l’interview
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par Globethics.net

12. WORLDWIDE ENERGY MARKET

13. Worldwide energy trends
 World energy consumption to increase by
53% between 2008 and 2035, half of it
attributed to China and India.
 Fossil fuels continue to supply 80% of
world energy use in 2035
 The oil share to start declining in 2035
(prices, fuel switching)

14. Worldwide energy trends: oil prices

15. The good news

16. Electricity generation: still strongly fossil
Source: International energy outlook 2011 from http://www.eia.gov/
But renewable energies (hydropower and others)
grabing a 20 to 25% share

17. Projections change according to viewpoints!
In Europe, potential to rise renewable energies from 24%
in 2020, 45% in 2030 and 96% in 2050! Source: EREC
(European Renewable Energy Council)
Tableau extrait du rapport Re-Thinking 2050

18. PV solar power generation becoming profitable at
large scale
Source: IRENA- Renewable Energy innovation Policy- march 2013

19. FUKUSHIMA TSUNAMI

20. Since March 11th, 2011
 2nd blow to nuclear power after the
Tchernobyl human and
environmental catastrophy in 1986
 19’000 deaths or unfound because of
tsunami and 160’000 persons
evacuated due to radiations
 Japan stopped its 54 nuclear
reactors (30% of power generation)
 Japan heavily imported energy,
opened coal mines and developed
renewables
 But 2 years later…planning to
reactivate nuclear power
 Not possible to predict
consequences on health

21. What was the Fukushima effect?
 Switzerland: May 25th, 2011 Decision to
phase out progressively its 5 nuclear
reactors and to stop 3 new nuclear plants
projects.
 France: low effect. To reduce some plants
(cf Fessenheim in 2016)
 Germany: Decision to stop 7 aging
reactors (out of 17). Decision to get out of
nuclear in 2020. Actions taken already 10
years ago, 20% renewables at present.
 Italy: renounced to introduce nuclear

22. The reality of nuclear power worldwide?
 14% of electricity produced
 435 nuclear reactors in 31 countries: 104 in the
USA, 58 in France, 9 in Germany, Japan 2
reconnected and 48 waiting to be reconnected
 65 new reactors under construction and 200
projects (100 in China and 40 in India)
 Increase in power capacity generation
 Low cost of kWh doesn’t include costs of
demantling aging plants

23. SWITZERLAND POSITION

24. The most ambitious challenge
 Get out of nuclear while keeping greenhouse gases low
 Replace nuclear power coming from France (5% of
Fessenheim closing plant)
 Green the energy massively
 Renovate and transform the power distribution network to
manage fluctuating energy sources
 Manage the energy transition while our society is getting
power intensive!

25. Energy consumptions

26. Power consumptions

27. Evolution of power prices

28. Existing power mix
Challenge: to replace 40% of nuclear power

29. Future power mix: hydropower, new renewables and
combined gas power as transition
Solar power could realistically supply respectively 20% of electricity by
2025 and 20% of heat to households by 2035! Source: Swiss Solar

30. POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES AND
STEPS AHEAD

31. Swiss 2050 energy strategy: 2 pillars at 50% each
Renewable energies Energy efficiency

32. Symbols for Switzerland

33. Objectives and measures:
PACK 1:
 Reduce individual energy consumption by 35% by 2035
 Stabilise power consumption after 2020
 Increase hydropower
 Increase renewable energies
 Introduce more severe measures for energy efficiency in
buildings (40% impact), electrical appliances, lighting,
mobility and reduce gas emissions
 Encourage local consumptions of self-produced energies
 Modernise the power distribution network
 Guaranty power supplies via imports and construction of
new combined gas power plants
PACK 2:
 Create a new ecological tax combining CO2 and energy

34. 3 scenarios for power (AES)

35. 3 scenarios for power (AES)

36. 3 scenarios for power (AES)

37. Next steps
 September 2013: feed-back on PACK 1 Federal
2050 energy strategy
 2014 Opening up of power market to households
 2015 Potential referendum on nuclear

38. Things move
 +67% of PV solar panels in 2012
 Development of initiatives for households
and companies by power suppliers and
distributors
 Tools to follow power consumptions: cf
smart metering
 AEnEC: 1.3 million tons of CO2 and energy
savings by companies
 Developments of innovative cleantechs (cf
storing energy)

39. WHAT CAN WE DO?

40. From any perspectives…

41. Technologies and behaviours
Technologies
Behaviours
Willpower

42. Towards ultra-connected lives and homes
http://www.scoop.it/t/l-experience-consommateurs-dans-l-efficience-energetique

43. Here is where social media step in…
 2 billion people on social
networks
 Local goes global
 Collective impacts

44. Power consumption of the average swiss family
Source: OFEN

45. Define a strategy and act
CSR
Economy
Environment
Governance
Social
Cleantechs

46. For companies: moving towards CSR

47. Define your commitments and your organisation

48. Example of an estate owner

49. Potential actions
 Vote
 Choose renewable energies when possible
 Reduce consumptions
 Check the energy label of your building/
home and areas of renovation
 Reduce use of individual transportation

50. Not always straight forward

51. Questioning: a source of evolution

52. http://about.me/edithpage
Blog: http://infuseon.wordpress.com/

53. Let’s debate!